monkey loose in Darwin

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Image shows 'monkey' roaming Darwin - Yahoo!7 News
there's a photo on the link, but personally I can't really make out what it is
Security camera footage has been released that apparently shows a monkey scampering across a street in Darwin.

A bus driver and several other people said they spotted the small primate wandering around Darwin's northern suburbs on Friday morning.

Following the sightings, the Northern Territory environment department issued a warning for people to stay clear of the animal.

"Monkeys can be aggressive and bite," the department said.

All registered monkeys have been accounted for.

The department says the roaming monkey could have been brought illegally to the Territory from Asia and could be carrying exotic diseases, such as rabies.

It says the monkey has not been spotted since Friday.

Today, security camera footage taken from a bus in the northern suburbs was released.

It shows a grainy image of a creature crossing the street.

"That was a monkey, wasn't it?" the bus driver can be heard saying in the background.
"It bloody was."
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Its really hard to make out. You would think if there was actually a monkey loose (for more than a short time) that people would see it, and in this day and age of Mobile phone cameras we would have a better photo.
 
looks like husband left more than just a hippo behind....

almost everyone on the planet are familiar with monkeys - even if they are not native to their respective countries. i reckon if someone says they saw one - they most likely saw one. likewise, animals are notoriously hard to photograph, especially on a mobile phone camera. and lastly, a monkey recently managed to survive covertly in downtown tokyo for over a month with the authorities unable to capture it.

probably a longtail macaque and he'd best avoid detection cos if the catch him - its curtains for the little bugger.
 
as it says in the article, probably a good chance it came across as a pet on one of the boats. Crab-eating (long-tailed) macaques are commonly kept in southeast Asia and have been introduced to numerous of the Lesser Sunda islands (via escaped pets)
 
the nation of indonesia is unusual in that it lies over two rather distinct zoogeographical regions. unfortunately, the colonisation of the eastern (australiasian) half by the javanese has meant that many "native" species like macaques, are transported and released through the region with little understanding of the consequences for these islands individual ecosystems or those of nations that border them. a little known fact is that long-tailed macaques have established themselves in west papua.

not good.
 
they're nasty horrible things in my book. I saw or heard them on every single island I visited in the Lesser Sundas. Their introduction to Mauritius has had well-documented effects on the local birdlife there, and time will no doubt prove the same to be true in the Lesser Sundas
 
counting eastwards from Bali (to which they are native of course): Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Rinca, Flores and West Timor
 
They're on Timor? I wasn't aware of that.

:(

Hix
 
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